Remember, if you want us to keep writing 20-year-old WCW jokes, click the share buttons and spread the column around. If you don’t tell them how much you like these, nobody’s going to read them. These are my favorite things in the world to write, and we’re only a pay-per-view cycle away from Chris Jericho’s all-time best WCW moment.

You’ve just gotta shrug it off, B-Stro… you’re knocking it out of the park on a regular basis and have a ton of fans. I’m sure I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know but, unfortunately, even when you’re really good at what you do, there’s always going to be some pain-in-the-ass detractors. (also checks notes) It’s THEIR problem.

I vividly remember my friend at school telling me that Hogan had won the belt back on Monday night and me deciding I was never flipping back to Nitro again when RAW was on from that point forward. It wasn’t until Hogan fought Goldberg a few months later that I decided to check out Nitro again, but after having such a great late 96 and most of 97, for WCW to squander all that good will by April of 1998 was just so frustrating to watch.

I mean, they had already killed Sting off pretty badly before Spring Stampede but the fact that he was nowhere to be found on this episode and didn’t come out at the end to murder everyone in the main event with a bat killed him dead for good.

I was a WWF kid all the way through the 90’s, so most of this is stuff I never knew or only experienced through highlights, and man am I glad I’m getting to know the stuff that made Jericho such a star in WCW. I knew the big moments, like the 1,004 holds and the Conspiracy Victim, but just seeing what he’s doing here week in and week out is great.

Also, of all the references I’ve seen you make, the La Parka as Patchface one is a pretty impressive, deep cut. Not sure I could have connected those two in a million, billion years.

I love that Alex Wright gif so much, but it’s because I owned that exact same shirt in 1998, wore it to the night clubs all the time. The thing did not breathe at all and 10 minutes of dancing left you covered in sweat but damn I thought I looked good (21 year old me was really dumb), if I was a wrestling fan in 1998 and saw this live, I would have been an Alex Wright fan for life.

Upon closer examination, it appears that the guy that the Clemson Tiger is Diamond Cutting is Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, and now I kinda wish there’d been an anthropomorphic tiger character added to the Blood Runs Cold storyline.

There it is. 75-0. One of my all time fondest Nitro memories, Goldberg becomes US Champion. Annihilating the Flock in a horrendously one sided ass whipping. Catching Kidman out of the air crushing Reese and Horace. STOP. NO! SPEAR! Like Tony said, “Completely indestructible, ask for it by Name.”